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| The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
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Alan Boss.
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| Publisher: Basic/QPB. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781615234578. Daedalus Item Code: 31693 |
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| We are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe—we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets around other stars. But will we find any? Astronomer Alan Boss posits that, ... (Read More)
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| Doodle Yourself Smart… Physics: Over 100 Doodles and Problems to Solve
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Sonya Newland.
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| Publisher: Thunder Bay Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781607104391. Daedalus Item Code: 29574 |
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| You don't have to be an artist or a genius to find your inner Einstein with this visual trivia and quiz book, presented like an engineer's notebook. Improve your grasp of basic physics and also ... (Read More)
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| Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases
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Elizabeth Potter.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780253214553. Daedalus Item Code: 31945 |
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| Though we tend to think of science as purely objective, based on demonstrable proofs and phenomena, scientists are of course human, and subject to certain assumptions and prejudices. A professor of ... (Read More)
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| Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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David Eagleman.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307389923. Daedalus Item Code: 38664 |
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| (A Boston Globe and Houston Chronicle Best Book of 2011) If the conscious mind—the part that you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg in the functioning of your ... (Read More)
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| The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Richard Dawkins. Dave McKean, illus.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781451675047. Daedalus Item Code: 32014 |
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| Perhaps the world's best-known evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins offers this sweeping introduction to the wonders of science, illuminating the ways in which the world really works through ... (Read More)
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| My Stroke of Insight
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Jill Bolte Taylor.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020744. Daedalus Item Code: 31732 |
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| In December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a 37-year-old Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point ... (Read More)
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| Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
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Amir D. Aczel.
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| Publisher: Macmillan. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230613744. Daedalus Item Code: 32001 |
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| Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, has an atomic nucleus so heavy that it is highly unstable, and if broken apart it unleashes the tremendous energy that holds atoms together. Here ... (Read More)
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| What Technology Wants
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Kevin Kelly.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670022151. Daedalus Item Code: 31670 |
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| Introducing a provocative new view of technology, this book suggests that technology as a whole is not an industrial production of wires and metal but a near-living, evolving organism that has its ... (Read More)
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